Report on the 2006 Workshop on Decontamination, Cleanup, and Associated Issues for Sites Contaminated with Chemical, Biological, or Radiological Materials

EPA, 2006. - 311 p. Table of Contents Executive Summary Introduction Presentations and Associated Question and Answer Periods Opening Remarks and Plenary Session - Opening Remarks; Conceptual Timelines for Decontamination Events - Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Science and Technology Chemical/Biological Restoration Programs - Evidence Awareness for Remediation Personnel at Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) Crime Scenes General Decontamination Issues - Validation of Environmental Sampling Methods: Current Research and Related Projects Decontamination Research at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Homeland Security Research Center (NHSRC) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regulation of Biological Decontamination Test Method Update (Office of Pesticide Programs [OPP] Sterilant Registration Protocol Development) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Partner in Protecting the Homeland - Technical Support Working Group (TSWG) Decontamination Research and Development Activities - A Decontamination Concept of Operations - Decontamination and Consequence Management Division (DCMD) Disposal Research - A Sampling of Some of Canada’s Decontamination Work - The Government Decontamination Service (GDS): The United Kingdom (UK) Perspective on Decontamination Approaches - Environmental Lab Response Network (eLRN) Support and Standard Analytical Methods Decontamination Technologies - Bacillus anthracis Spore Detection Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) - Chlorine Dioxide Fumigation Developments - Decontamination Technology Testing and Evaluation - Vapor Hydrogen Peroxide (VHP) Fumigation Technology Update - Laboratory Decontamination of 65 Room New Animal Facility Using Chlorine Gas - Decontamination Research—A New Approach - Decontamination of Toxins and Vegetative Cells Using Chlorine Dioxide - Restoration of Major Transportation Facilities Following a Chemical Agent Release - The Development of Modified Vaporous Hydrogen Peroxide (mVHP) for Chemical- and Biological-Weapons Decontamination - Spore Contamination: What Concentration Deposits, What Resuspends, and Can We Inhibit Its Transport? - Studies of the Efficacy of Chlorine Dioxide Gas in Decontamination of Building Materials Contaminated with Bacillus anthracis Spores Decontamination Research and Development - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Homeland Security Research Center (NHSRC) Ongoing Research Efforts in Understanding the Efficacy and Application of Decontamination Technologies - Rapid Methods to Plan, Verify and Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Decontamination Process. - Agent Fate Program - Stakeholder Issues Surrounding Chemical Agent Restoration Radiological Dispersion Device Decontamination - Strategy for National Homeland Security Research Center (NHSRC) Radiological - Decontamination Research and Development Program - Decontamination Technologies for Urban Radiological Dispersion Device (RDD) Recovery - Radiological Dispersion Device (RDD) Aerosolization Experiments: History/Applications/Results Water Decontamination - Water Distribution System Decontamination - Decontamination of Water Infrastructure - Adherence and Decontamination of Chemicals and Biologicals - Measurement and Analysis of Building Water System Contamination and Decontamination - Water Decontamination and Detection Foreign Animal Disease/Avian Influenza Decontamination - Determining the Virucidal Mechanism of Action for Foreign Animal Disease - Protection of U.S. Agriculture: Foreign Animal Disease Threats Panel Discussion—Lessons Learned, Research and Development Needs, Technology Gaps Agenda List of Participants Presentation Slides